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Patron barred after threatening to ’blow up’ library, say police

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Police were called to the public library Tuesday when a patron was reportedly yelling, viewing pornography on a library computer and threatened to “blow up the building,” reports the Portsmouth Herald.

Officers were dispatched to the Parrott Avenue library at approximately 12:20 p.m. when staff reported the man was viewing porn and making the threats on the second floor. According to police, the man had been escorted off the library property an hour earlier.